On Tue Oct 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM JST, John Hubbard wrote: > Alex, this ".alter" method is misnamed, IMHO. Because for registers, > The One True Way (or so I claim, haha) is to have the following methods: > > .read > .modify, also known as RMW (read-modify-write) > .write > > "alter" never shows up in this naming scheme. I'm going to claim that > this is a bit jarring for old hardware/kernel programmers. > > But it's not too late: these are only used in a very few places, and entirely > within nova-core, too. > > Can I *please* send a patch to rename "alter" to "modify", perhaps?
Oh yes, although I was just thinking that this should be renamed to `update` for consistency with regmap.
